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E. Jean Carroll chokes up when describing alleged rape by Trump: ‘I can still feel’ pain
Priscilla DeGregory
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E. Jean Carroll testified she can “still feel” the pain, choking up in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday as she recounted Donald Trump allegedly raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room nearly three decades ago.
Carroll’s voice broke as she told jurors she always wondered “why I walked in” to the department store changing room — where she alleged Trump “shoved” and pinned her against a wall, pulled her tights down and forced his fingers inside her before raping her.
“As I am sitting here today, I can still feel” the pain, Carroll, 79, testified.
“I always think back to why I walked in there,” Carroll said, as her voice broke, “to get myself in that situation.”
The former journalist took the stand on the second day of trial in her lawsuit accusing Trump, 76, of raping her in the spring of 1996 and then defaming her when he denied her claims decades later.
The former president was not in court for her testimony and also did not attend the start of the proceedings on Tuesday.
Carroll described how she ran into the real estate mogul at the Fifth Avenue store — which was across from Trump Tower.
The pair began “flirting” and bantering, she claimed.
Trump asked Carroll, then 52, to help him find a gift for a woman, which “delighted” Carroll — who as the advice columnist of Elle magazine’s “Ask E. Jean” loved the prospect of giving the prominent New York City personality advice on a present.
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